Posted on 02/11/2022 1:59:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Chinese restaurant Big World in the Danish town of Grindsted is up for sale. The reason is that the Chinese owners can not get Chinese chefs to Denmark, media JydskeVestkysten writes.
The Chinese couple Feng Lin and Yao Gong Yan are both from Fu Jian province in southern China. Lin came to Denmark in 1997 and Gong followed in 2002 and in 2014 they opened the Restaurant Big World.
The couple explains that they have been forced to put the restaurant up for sale.
“We have been forced to put the restaurant in Grindsted up for sale. Not because the restaurant runs poorly, because it does not, but because we can not get Chinese chefs to Denmark. We have tried with Danish chefs, but they can not make the Chinese dishes that we have. We are constantly searching for Chinese chefs,” Lin Feng says.
Right now, the Chinese couple has chefs for the restaurant in Grindsted, so it runs as usual. “But in a year and a half, we will be short of chefs, as those we have now will start their own businesses,” Lin Feng explains.
She does not hope that it will be necessary to close Big World in Grindsted. “We are fighting not to close, and we are trying to find a solution,” Lin Feng says.
Lin Feng says that there has not yet been anyone interested in looking at the restaurant which seats 150 guests.
The sales ad from Restaurantsalg.dk states that the restaurant’s total area is 420 square meters, where the 242 square meters are restaurant and serving. The turnover is DKK 4.5 million a year, and the restaurant and premises are set at DKK 1.8 million.
Although no one has been to look at the restaurant yet, Business broker Søren Klein from Restaurantsalg.dk who is responsible for the sale, says that the sales material has been downloaded 120 times so there is definitely an interest.
You definitely don't need Chinese chefs to make basic Chinese food.
A restaurant near us just cycled through various asian students who were at the local university. The owner taught them the basic 10-15 dishes. Pretty much all the same ingredients.
“A lot of the Chinese restaurants where I am have hispanics in the kitchen. Lol!”
Same here in Texas, but they do cook the meals just as well. About the only Chinese you see are the ones waiters and hostesses.
That’s just as dumb as forcing people to vaccinate, freedom goes both ways.... want to get the vaccine, fine, don’t want to, fine. That’s how it should be.
I mean, how hard can it be to put soy sauce on cat meat fresh chicken?
Once one watches all these videos of Made with Lau you will be a Chinese Chef!:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MadeWithLau
How hard is rice, vegatables, meat and MS frickin G?
I like Made With Lau a lot, but if anyone ever brought me beef with brocolli that had carrots in it, I’d send it back.
I know a lot of stuff is regional and he’s west coast, but there are a quite few things he does that are quite different from the way I’ve learned over the years.
There is no rule in nature that says only Chinese can cook good Chinese food, just as there is no rule in nature that says only Chinese can be good at Kung Fu.
Why can’t they teach Danish cooks to make Chinese food? That’s an obvious question.
Perhaps you are ready to become a Chinese Chef in Denmark!
LOL...not likely on that one. I might do some Youtube stuff this year though.
I look forward to the videos then....as for myself, its been Thai cooking and the recipes here: https://hot-thai-kitchen.com
Cool...thanks! I’ll drop you a note when some are up. That looks like a great website. I’m bookmarking to go through. I love Thai cooking. So much can be learned about balancing flavor in general from Thai recipes.
Same here in Central TX. No Italians in Italian restaurants either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_6Fd_wbxJE
Trevor James Food Ranger has a cool collection of Chinese Street Food videos from different regions of China. I think he has moved on to Dubai these days
Then there is Mark Wiens focusing on Thai Food, but actually all foods around the world.
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